In other words, the “farming Kara for Sunwell lewtz” is officially dead and gone.

Badges can also be used to purchase Bind to Account items. These items scale according to level, and are equivalent to a powerful blue item at whatever level they are equipped at.

Plate items also scale to become Mail, and Mail to Leather.

For instance, a warrior plate chest at level 70 with +50 Strength would become a mail chest piece with +2 Strength when equipped on a level 1 character.

Right now, however, they only scale every ten levels. So it gets a stat boost at level 20, 30, 40…

One last thing to note.

The badge/honor thingies you get from Wintergrasp (like battleground token, but you use them to receive a sizeable chunk honor when you use them, similar to Argent Dawn tokens) are also bind to account.